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April 30, 2013 | New Public Health Post
In recent years many bacteria have become resistant to drugs that commonly vanquished them, depleting a natural resource—antibiotics—that has saved millions of lives around the globe.
April 24, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
When Health Foo 2013 was canceled due to the Boston Marathon bombings, some attendees banded together to meet anyway, and learned that constraint breeds creativity.
April 23, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
"Burning Man for health aficionados," TEDMED brings together public health advocates, clinicians, biomedical researchers, break-the-mold thinkers, patients and artists. Here are highlights from this year's conference.
April 22, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Sometimes the best ideas come from unexpected sources – beyond technology, beyond research, beyond clinical trials. Sometimes, the future of health and health care lies somewhere else: in the people who will bring it about.
April 18, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
With support from Pioneer, NCQA and Archimedes, Inc., will develop and test the Global Cardiovascular Risk (GCVR) score over the coming months.
April 16, 2013 | Feature
RWJF is a proud supporter of TEDMED's 20 Great Challenges of Health and Medicine and several of the innovative thinkers who have shared their ideas on the TEDMED stage.
April 16, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
A longtime champion of open access and transparency discusses how the VA is handling OpenNotes and what it took to get everyone on board.
April 11, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Dr. Darwin Labarthe, Positive Health researcher recently wrote an essay about the shift in the field of cardiology to focus on building cardiovascular health—beyond just preventing heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular events.
April 9, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Through a National Committee for Quality Assurance project, we hope to give doctors, nurses and other clinicians 'permission' to refocus on what is important for patients – good health outcomes.
April 9, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
A recent report that "most family doctors" in the UK have given a patient a placebo underscores the importance of Ted Kaptchuk's innovative, multidisciplinary research into the placebo effect.